Being Old Quotes

• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Birthday, Anniversary

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Marriage, Girl, Wedding

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Risk, Mind, Age

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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• I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

  Billy Crystal

  Black, Comedy, Comfortable

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• I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

  Steve Kanaly

  Television, Roger, Film

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• Being vintage like a fine wine
  Should make you proud of being old
  And being mature like a cheese
  Certainly explains the mould!
  Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Wine, Vintage

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• I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

  Bel Kaufman

  Age, Want, Firsts

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• Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

  Maggie Scarf

  Inspirational, People, Happens

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

  Douglas Coupland

  Young

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

  Wolf Kahn

  Names, Age, Add

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• Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

  Will Rogers

  Beautiful, Young, Comfortable

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• We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.

  Terri E Apter

  Mistake, Numbers, People

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• The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

  Stephen King

  Worry, Dying, Good Things

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Mean, Simple, Wake Up

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• You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Strong, Morning, Yesterday

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• I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Weight Loss, Mind

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• Being old is such a treat!

  Shirley MacLaine

  Treats

  "Shirley MacLaine grows old and mean - for "Bernie"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

  Jon Meacham

  Two, People, Grandparent

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• Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Names, People, Acting

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• ...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Way, Firsts, Young

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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